New Release Review | The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune

The Extraordinaries by TJ KluneThe Extraordinaries #1YA Superhero FantasyTor Teen | July 14, 2020 About the Book: Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune’s YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves. Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer […]

Review | Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie KaufmanAurora Cycle #1Science Fiction YAKnopf Books| May 7th, 2019 About the Book:The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him […]

Review | Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

Starsight by Brandon SandersonSkyward #2YA Science FictionNovember 26, 2019 About the Book:  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity’s […]

Review | Obsidio by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman

Obsidio by Jay Kristoff & Amie KaufmanThe Illuminae Files #3YA Science FictionKnopf Books | March 13, 2018 About the Book:  Kady, Ezra, Hanna and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and […]

Review | Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Skyward by Brandon SandersonSkyward #1YA Science FictionNovember 6, 2018 About the Book:  Spensa’s world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what’s left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa’s dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But […]

New Release Review | Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel

Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Black Birds of the Gallows Series YA Fantasy Entangled Teen | September 4, 2018 About the Book: KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways. Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a […]